Category: Java

Recently, I had a task to migrate the unit tests in our project from ‘JUnit 4’ to ‘JUnit 5’. As many developers, I researched a bit to learn about the major differences between the two versions and drafted a plan for smooth migration.

From the first look, I thought my only job was refactoring the tests and probably some helper classes. But, I was wrong! I ran into a configuration issue with the maven-surefire-plugin configuration.

In this post, I will be sharing the encountered issue and its fix. Note that I will not cover the detailed steps of how to migrate from ‘JUnit 4’ to ‘JUnit 5’.

Tests run: 0!

We, as many other developers, use the maven-surefire-plugin to run our tests during the test phase of maven’s build lifecycle. We rely heavily on this plugin because it fails the build when one of the tests is broken!

With JUnit4, everything was working perfectly! But after the migration, the plugin was always reporting that not tests are run:

'Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 ...'!

Calculator Class

For the purpose of this blog, let us assume we want to build a Calculator. For now, we only have the ‘add‘ method implemented as shown below.